Amara grimaced lifting his head and putting it back on his neck. She squealed as it made a squish sound.

"I can't believe you just did that" Vivian looked about ready to throw up. "Is his head gonna grow back?" Bart asked covering his eyes. "They stabbed me in the brain so I'm guessing it should" Amara muttered feeling the stitches in her head in 7 different places. "They stabbed you in your brain?" Damian looked at her worriedly. "Do you think it will work?" Vivian asked.

"I'm not sure it-" her eyes started to flash gold. Her hand shot out putting a protective barrier around Evan.

Mara stared at Evan the old memory flashing through her mind, of when she found out he was killed. Her breathing picked up her eyes unable to stray from his lifeless limp body. "Mara?" Bart called out. Their heads turned to the triggered girl, "hey hey it's okay" Bart came into her eyesight blocking the view of his currently dead body. Damian stared at her concerned he too was seeing what she was seeing.

"Look at me" Mara focused her eyes on him. "Breathe, just look at me and breathe" Mara nodded clearing her throat and wiping her eyes. "I'm fine" she lowered her head in a thanks.

"Woah"

Their heads turned to Jason who was staring at the dead body. The head started to reattach itself to the neck morphing together. Evan suddenly shot up awake "ow" he groaned pulling at his neck.

Amara snapped out of it when he woke up, her eyes still gold looked at everyone in the room. Her hand shot out and a gold tether went through the bars, hopefully it would lead to someone who could help them. "Amara?"

"It did not work, one must be willing to give in order to receive" Alyx spoke, "is Amara okay?" Damian immediately asked. "I have been unable to access her and her body is drained from constantly healing itself. She just needs to rest" Damian nodded glaring at Evan who was eyeing Mara as she listened to Bart talk about random things to keep her distracted.

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After getting no response from anyone Tim took it upon himself to find out, He made his way around the base trying to be as quick as possible through the vents. He peered through a small gap and found a lab, he could only see one doctor and there was no way he was going to let them have Amara's samples and stuff. So he did what anyone would do he dropped down from the vent and planned to knock him out. The doctor was old and frail, turning around and jumping at the sight of the masked vigilante induced a heartattack. He grasped at his chest as he harshly breathed. "Oh no no no" Tim ran over to him to help as the doctor fell back unconscious. "I'm so sorry" he whispered checking his pulse and finding a weak one. He opened his shirt a little giving him room to breathe.

Tim's head flickered back to the computer, "you'll be fine" he stood up and started going through the files.

'Tim what's going on?'

"I'm erasing the files they have on Mari" he cheered when he found her file.

Subject AA01
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Mother: Nadia Alexeyeva
Species: Partial God
Subject notes:
Has the ability to regenerate limbs and vital organs, evidence obtained through puncturing the brain and removing the organs.

Virus 3B has proved effective and harmful to the subject.

Tim stared in horror as he read the notes and began downloading her file and deleting things as he went on. He searched Virus 3B, if it was harmful enough to hurt Amara then they needed to cap it at the source.

Virus 3B:
Designed to liquidate the organs causing its consumer to vomit until they have no organs left. Inserted through the veins it travels through the body like a blood source, it will turn any hard tissue into liquid.

Current Consumers:
Subject AA01
Subject DAG02
Subject MAG03
Subject EA04
Subject JT05
Subject VW06
Subject BA07

It didn't take long for him to figure out it was his missing teammates that were the ones with the tissue killing virus.
'What's going on?'

'They've all be injected with an organ killing virus' he grumbled trying to find an antidote.

It only took a couple of minutes for the virus to load, he sighed tapping on the desk wishing it would hurry up. The cry of a baby made him jump.

"What the hell?"

Tim turned his head from the screen, surely they weren't testing on a innocent little baby? How did he not see it when he came in the room?

He found the little bundle laying in an incubator, like the ones newborns would in the hospital. The baby itself looked only a couple months old.

He turned back to the screen to see the download was complete, he turned back to the baby his mind telling him to escape whilst he had the chance but his heart told him to save the baby from the possible life of having to become an assassin.

'Tim have you got the virus?'

'Yeah I got it..'

'Then hurry the hell up!'

"Yolo" he immediately cringed before grabbing the baby. "Please don't be a baby copy cat Damian" he whispered in a baby voice despite the baby being asleep.

He climbed back into the vent holding the baby close to him being careful not to crush it. He felt really bad for not being able to tell whether it was a boy or a girl just by the face alone.

He paused when he heard a noise, he held the baby closer to him preparing to protect them with everything he could.

He sighed in relief when he saw the golden tether, he quickly followed after it checking the hallway before he dropped down.

He ended up at a door peering inside he saw the 7 of them laying on the floor looking essentially dead.

He unlocked the door immediately, and dropped down beside them, he reached for his pocket and pulled out the elixir Damian left with him just in case.

He immediately went round leaving a drop into their mouths and waited for them to wake up. He began to get worried when they weren't waking up, maybe the magic living potion didn't cure everything?

It was as if the baby could sense Tim's nerves as it began to cry. Tim scrambled to get it to stop "no it's okay everyone's okay nobody's dead.." he looked down the hallway hopefully no one was coming.

"Hush child. We're going to die if you don't shut up actually no I'm gonna die and you'll be a lab rat for the psycho murder raisers!" He whispered yelled.

"Oh get it to stop" Amara groaned rolling onto her belly, one by one they started to wake up.

"Drake why do you have a baby?" Damian questioned him staring at the child "I found them in the lab and I'm about 50% sure it's a copy clone Damian and I couldn't just leave her-him I don't know what it is yet.. but I'm stopping it from being a murderous weapon" he defended pride filling him when he finally got the crying to stop.

"Now we do not have time so get off your asses and let's get out of here" he rushed them to the vent, Evan gave Jason a leg up into the vent and he pulled the others up one by one with the final one being Evan.

The 9 of them now made their way through the tunnels with Mara leading the way, after a couple of turns she landed into a room.

"Where are we?" Bart asked "my old room" Mara muttered rushing the others inside. Bart marveled at the weapons practically hanging off the walls. The bed was basically a mat on the floor with blankets "it's a lot more comfortable than you think" to be fair the bamboo mat did wonders for the back.

"Why are we in here?" Vivian questioned looking concerned at the holes in the wall. "Damians room was next door" Amara remembered the daily occurrence and dodging of the knives he'd like to throw after a long day of training.

Mara pulled back her dresser revealing a vent. "These vents are separated from the others.." they used them to sneak into each other's rooms after they'd been locked in to sleep for the night. If she remembered correctly it was 3 lefts she'd be at Amara's room and right turn from there would lead her to the changing rooms, another left and then a right and she'd be in the bathroom. The bathroom connected to the sewer, they treaded through the murky water gagging slightly at the smell. "Stick close to the wall, they used to have flesh eating hybrids in there" Damian warned holding Amara's hand as far as he was concerned if he kept holding her hand there's no way he would lose her again.

The end of the sewer led to a small beach Tim contacted the ship to meet them there. "Are we really going to bring him?" Tim whispered to Amara.

"He can hear you" Evan called out to him. "I told him I'd help him find his mom" she shrugged, "our mom" he corrected "pending confirmation" she waved off. 10 deaths, a baby and a brother all in one day?